My friend pointed me to one of the pictures, and I remarked about having that idea a while ago with a funky iso on a standard cd writer (Yes, I know it wouldnt actually work) and also that it would be really great if it could burn over the data, so as to be visible to human eyes, but be transparent to a CD laser, so as to allow both data and pretty pictures to be in teh same place.
Ooga Booga for Dreamcast had something sortof like that, but easier to crack. See, if it detected that you were using a burned copy of the game, it would instead of starting, display a dancing pirate (one ofthe characters from the game) with the words "PIRACY DETECTED" over its head.
Needless to say, the DC group that cracked it (I can't remember if it was Echelon or someone else) left the pirate in, because it was absolutely hilarious, and made a bypass for it.
To recall: The Super Gameboy was a cartridge adaptor that allowed you to play gameboy games on your snes. The grandparent poster was not talking about the Gameboy Advance, but the Super Gameboy adaptor.
One of my school iMacs ate my CD-RW. Well, it almost ate it, until I paperclipped it out. Holding down the mouse button at reboot didn't work any better than yelling at it to give me my CD back. It didn't recognise the CD as even being in the drive.
A bunch of people stop posting for a week so that Taco realises that ________ (They had some reason but it escapes me) Surprisingly enough, not many people participated in not-posting, not even those with their sig promoting the Blackout.
For what it is worth, I am all for banning calculators from the classroom. Far better to be able to demonstrate the process by which the student arrived at an answer than to pull some magic number out of the air and expect full marks.
My math teacher does something similar, yet a lot smarter. We use calculators, but we have to write down our steps. For example,
c^2 = a^2 + b^2 c^2 = 371^2 + 1007^2 c = root(371^2 + 1007^2) c =~ 1073.17
would be something we might do. I think this system eliminates the unnecessary time-wasting of working with ugly numbers like that by hand, and lets us get a lot more done that we actually need to learn. We all know how to add and square numbers, but calculators are much better at working with big numbers than we are. They're also better at trig than we are. When was the last time you willingly looked at a sine value table?
Most comptuers come standard with MORE than enough USB ports.
You mean, two?
I don't think so. My printer and scanner are USB. Whoops, there go all my USB ports. My webcam is also USB, which means that everytime I want to use it I have to unhook either my printer or scanner. USB mice and keyboards are semi-popular (and standard on macs), and there are also USB joysticks, CD burners, and a whole slew of other things. If there was a game out that required a dongle to be attached to the USB port, I wouldn't buy it, simply because it's too much frigging work to unhook useful accessories just to play a game.
That's why you resurface, clean, and uh.. clean, respectively.
at least tape's are protected by the plastic casing.
What do you think that the part of a DVD that is usually scratched is made of? When the plastic gets scratched you can resurface it and all will be well again! The SkipDoctor is your friend.
1. Not quite pornographic, but World of Free Games comes up ninth (individual domains, 11th total) on a google search for "free games" and popped up with a casino ad the first time I went there, and has a prominent ad right near the top for Bullz-Eye.com, "the Guys Portal to the Web" (which also pops up with an online dating service).
2. 16th by domain in the same search (19th overall), Freefungames has a banner ad for an adult-oriented matchmaking service. (I realise I'm being slightly picky here)
3. 24 Hour games pops up with an ad that says "You have been surfing adult sites! Click here to download Internet Eraser" and has links to adult galleries, strip-saver, and a sex video site. This is still on the first page of the results.
Honourable mentions: This site has a similar ad for Internet eraser, in a pop up, and also the X-10 camera ad. This one comes up (still in the first 100 results) for the same search. Again, it's not pornographic but I wouldn't want to have kids gambling on the internet. This French site bombards you with popups, half of them porn, that reopen when you close them.
That's about as far as I'll go. I'm sure there's more in the same search (Still in the first 100 matches) but I'm too lazy to check. Also, I'm sure that "free movies" and nintendo cheats will lead to a similar result.
If you have the google toolbar, you can right-click on the links and tell it to load the cached snapshot of the page. That made navigating through this story really easy.
Otherwise, you could remember the address that each link pointed to, do a search for link:www.honet.com/Nadine/ and go to the appropriate cache from what comes up.
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My friend pointed me to one of the pictures, and I remarked about having that idea a while ago with a funky iso on a standard cd writer (Yes, I know it wouldnt actually work) and also that it would be really great if it could burn over the data, so as to be visible to human eyes, but be transparent to a CD laser, so as to allow both data and pretty pictures to be in teh same place.
why not use a good one like [...] Real 9
Parse error: You used "good" and "Real 9" in a way that I do not understand.
Telling OEMs not to ship RealPlayer
I thin they're actually doing this purely out of concern for the user. Not even MS is evil enough to let people be subjected to RealPlayer.
Ooga Booga for Dreamcast had something sortof like that, but easier to crack. See, if it detected that you were using a burned copy of the game, it would instead of starting, display a dancing pirate (one ofthe characters from the game) with the words "PIRACY DETECTED" over its head.
Needless to say, the DC group that cracked it (I can't remember if it was Echelon or someone else) left the pirate in, because it was absolutely hilarious, and made a bypass for it.
This seems to be their most effective method at the moment.
You mean like this?
To recall: The Super Gameboy was a cartridge adaptor that allowed you to play gameboy games on your snes. The grandparent poster was not talking about the Gameboy Advance, but the Super Gameboy adaptor.
One of my school iMacs ate my CD-RW. Well, it almost ate it, until I paperclipped it out. Holding down the mouse button at reboot didn't work any better than yelling at it to give me my CD back. It didn't recognise the CD as even being in the drive.
I had never heard of carpal tunnel syndrome before I got a keyboard.
Before that it was "nameless wrist-hurting from writing syndrome."
What I understood it as:
A bunch of people stop posting for a week so that Taco realises that ________ (They had some reason but it escapes me) Surprisingly enough, not many people participated in not-posting, not even those with their sig promoting the Blackout.
Second, and more importantly, maybe YOU don't take boycotts seriously, but many others do.
Just like people took the Slashdot Blackout seriously, right?
Bnetd cannot be used to play WCIII beta. Period.
Then how did I play it over bnetd?
For what it is worth, I am all for banning calculators from the classroom. Far better to be able to demonstrate the process by which the student arrived at an answer than to pull some magic number out of the air and expect full marks.
My math teacher does something similar, yet a lot smarter. We use calculators, but we have to write down our steps. For example,
c^2 = a^2 + b^2
c^2 = 371^2 + 1007^2
c = root(371^2 + 1007^2)
c =~ 1073.17
would be something we might do. I think this system eliminates the unnecessary time-wasting of working with ugly numbers like that by hand, and lets us get a lot more done that we actually need to learn. We all know how to add and square numbers, but calculators are much better at working with big numbers than we are. They're also better at trig than we are. When was the last time you willingly looked at a sine value table?
Those things cost a ton of money. I don't want to pay megabucks to be able to ultimately stick dongles into my computer.
You mean, two?
I don't think so. My printer and scanner are USB. Whoops, there go all my USB ports. My webcam is also USB, which means that everytime I want to use it I have to unhook either my printer or scanner. USB mice and keyboards are semi-popular (and standard on macs), and there are also USB joysticks, CD burners, and a whole slew of other things. If there was a game out that required a dongle to be attached to the USB port, I wouldn't buy it, simply because it's too much frigging work to unhook useful accessories just to play a game.
That's why you resurface, clean, and uh.. clean, respectively.
What do you think that the part of a DVD that is usually scratched is made of? When the plastic gets scratched you can resurface it and all will be well again! The SkipDoctor is your friend.
Excuse me, did you just say Real? As in, "RealVideo" Real?
Well, I suppose that it might almost reach comparable quality to DivX playing on a CGA monitor.
Sony did what to who now? They've been selling consoles at a loss since the PSX, just like every other company.
1. Not quite pornographic, but World of Free Games comes up ninth (individual domains, 11th total) on a google search for "free games" and popped up with a casino ad the first time I went there, and has a prominent ad right near the top for Bullz-Eye.com, "the Guys Portal to the Web" (which also pops up with an online dating service).
2. 16th by domain in the same search (19th overall), Freefungames has a banner ad for an adult-oriented matchmaking service. (I realise I'm being slightly picky here)
3. 24 Hour games pops up with an ad that says "You have been surfing adult sites! Click here to download Internet Eraser" and has links to adult galleries, strip-saver, and a sex video site. This is still on the first page of the results.
Honourable mentions: This site has a similar ad for Internet eraser, in a pop up, and also the X-10 camera ad. This one comes up (still in the first 100 results) for the same search. Again, it's not pornographic but I wouldn't want to have kids gambling on the internet. This French site bombards you with popups, half of them porn, that reopen when you close them.
That's about as far as I'll go. I'm sure there's more in the same search (Still in the first 100 matches) but I'm too lazy to check. Also, I'm sure that "free movies" and nintendo cheats will lead to a similar result.
No-one knows why they do it, but this is something that happens, whether you deny it or not.
Who are you and where did you get the lyrics to Eminem's new unreleased song?
warez.slashdot.org works.
If you have the google toolbar, you can right-click on the links and tell it to load the cached snapshot of the page. That made navigating through this story really easy.
Otherwise, you could remember the address that each link pointed to, do a search for link:www.honet.com/Nadine/ and go to the appropriate cache from what comes up.
I didn't think they'd have drivers for the kitchen sink yet. Wow, Linux sure is advancing!
The analogy is more complete if it's your adopted child.